{"id":101947,"date":"2017-04-10T10:14:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T10:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=101947&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=101947"},"modified":"2019-09-10T15:35:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:35:34","slug":"political-updates-10th-april-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-10th-april-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 10th April 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99277 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3.png\" alt=\"Political-Updates-Logo-3\" width=\"760\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3.png 760w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3-705x264.png 705w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3-450x169.png 450w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3-500x188.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">This week&#8217;s\u00a0Political Updates, covers moves and changes at all levels of government.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div   class='hr hr-full hr-no-shadow   avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-96460 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/House-of-Commons-Logo.png\" alt=\"house-of-commons-logo\" width=\"86\" height=\"106\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>House of Commons<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>House of Commons<\/strong> is\u00a0in recess from the\u00a0<strong>3rd April\u00a0<\/strong>to\u00a0<strong>18th April.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Professor Francis Davis<\/strong> has been appointed to the <strong>Office for Disability Issues<\/strong> by Penny Mordaunt, Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work. <strong>Professor Francis Davis<\/strong> will be responsible for promoting social enterprise and for the improvement of employment opportunities for disabled people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-96461 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/House-of-Lords-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"house-of-lords-logo\" width=\"107\" height=\"105\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>House of Lords<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">The <strong>House of Lords<\/strong>\u00a0is in recess from the\u00a0<strong>6th April<\/strong>\u00a0to the\u00a0<strong>24th April.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Scottish-Parliament-Logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-96464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Scottish-Parliament-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"scottish-parliament-logo\" width=\"123\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Scottish Parliament<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Scottish Parliament<\/strong> is in recess from the <strong>1st April<\/strong> to the <strong>16th April<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Northern-Ireland-Assembly-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-96463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Northern-Ireland-Assembly-Logo.png\" alt=\"northern-ireland-assembly-logo\" width=\"107\" height=\"96\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Northern Ireland Assembly<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The deadline for <strong>Sinn F\u00e9in<\/strong> and the <strong>Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)<\/strong> to reach an agreement has been extended until the 18th April. If the talks fail, certain\u00a0devolved powers would be temporarily returned to Westminster, a move that <strong>Sinn F\u00e9in<\/strong> strongly opposes. <strong>Sinn F\u00e9in<\/strong> wants a new election to be held if an agreement is not reached, however, several people, including\u00a0<strong>Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, James Brokenshire<\/strong>, have claimed that there is no appetite for another election.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h3>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-96459 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/European-Parliament-Logo.png\" alt=\"european-parliament-logo\" width=\"198\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>European Parliament<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>This week the Members of the European Parliament will be based in <strong>Brussels<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>for\u00a0<strong>Committee Sessions.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Political Updates covers moves and changes at all levels of government: local, devolved, national and, supranational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":99279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7341],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101947"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124343,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101947\/revisions\/124343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}